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Canada is a great place. Arcade Fire was born out the Montreal region and has been bouncing around the states (not this year) finding themselves at the top of many “best of 2005″ lists. Guess what happened this year? …. Nothing yet, but I guess the band is in the process of making a new album. So this is a tribute to their work on their album. (Click on picture to see video)

And I guess a post wouldn’t be complete without a MuteMath video.

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One Evening (Gonzales Solo Piano)
Feist Open Season: Remixes And Collabs

Broken Boy Soldier
The Raconteurs Broken Boy Soldiers

Balcony
Birdmonster No Midnight

Skip To The End
The Futureheads News And Tributes

See the World
The Kooks Inside in Inside Out

Conventional Wisdom
Built To Spill You In Reverse

Bloodbook On The Half Shell
Danielson Ships

sukie in the graveyard
Belle and Sebastian the life pursuit

Like Eating Glass
Bloc Party Silent Alarm [Japan Bonus Tracks]

The Skin Of My Yellow Country Teeth
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

Your Beauty Is A Knife
Eagle*Seagull Eagle*Seagull MP3

Shoot Em Down
Ghostland Observatory

Crazy
Gnarls Barkley St Elsewhere (Promo)

Something Isn’t Right
Herbert Scale

On A Neck On A Spit
Grizzly Bear Yellow House

Tear Your Love Apart
Gomez How We Operate

Salesman At The Day Of The Parade
Rogue Wave Descended Like Vultures

Postcards From Italy
Beirut Gulag Orkestar

Jogging Gorgeous Summer
Islands Return to the Sea

This Lamb Sells Condos
Final Fantasy He Poos Clouds

Head Home
Midlake The Trials Of Van Occupanther

Consolation Prizes
Phoenix It’s Never Been Like That

Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)
The Arcade Fire Funeral

The Transfiguration
Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans

How It Ends
Devotchka How It Ends

Or you can just download the whole lot (156MB zip)

Is it one word or two words? I guess when Earthsuit called it quits in 2002, Paul Meany decided to keep trucking on. Now he is joined by Greg Hill (guitars), Darren King (drums/samples/programming), and Roy Mitchell-Cardenas (bass) in the adventure called Mutemath. I’ve heard and read that their sounds is a mix of Bjork / Police. The Earthsuit sound speaks to me the most and for those familiar its a very pleasant noise. They are currently touring with Van’s Warped tour and will be at Bonnaroo, Cornerstone (yes!), and Lollapalooza.

From their recent self-titled album
Noticed.mp3

Flash back to “Earthsuit”
Earthsuit – Kaleidoscope Superior – Wheel
Some crazy video from a recent show in Florida.

http://assets.mutemath.com/_blog/OrlandoSV3.mov
Myspace
http://www.myspace.com/mutemath

Rated-M.com has the WORLD EXCLUSIVE first look at the Transformers Trailer from Michael Bay.

Teaser Trailer (8mb .avi DivX)

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Finally having kids is paying off.
We are willing t o loan him out for simple house cleaning. His hourly rate is $40/hr. Don’t call Child Services. Thanks.

Despite the amount of grief that everyone gives Microsoft, it seems that they continue to persevere in designing products that work well together. They may not play well with everything else, but they usually work well with their own family of products namely Office. Enter Office 2007. I downloaded it tonight to play around with it on a test PC and I’m pleasantly surprised at how much I like it. With a Beta 2 we can usually expect some pretty polished products but this is has all the extra polish that you might expect from a RTM. Here is the catch; it plays well with others (notwithstanding Open Document format). I noticed the blogging feature from within 2007 which allows me to make posts onto WordPress through Word. I guess this is where we are finally starting to see the early work of XML coming to fruition. The menus in the new Word are very nice and we have been hearing a lot about these. The other pleasant surprise was that my picture output was by default in png. Does this mean we have .png support in IE7? Along with the standard MSN Spaces and Blogger support there is a support for basically whatever you have rolled up those posts in Atom or MetaWebLog formats. The Blogger support was nice to see (hope this doesn’t squash any upcoming Yahoo! deals, last time I checked Blogger was owned by Google) as well as Microsoft’s flexibility to give us the option to choose our blog software. Edit: I just noticed that you can also..edit..existing posts. How handy is that?